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The Kentucky State Police are expanding the search for 7-year-old Randall Leon Chesser. In spite of inclement weather, the field search will continue this morning as 60 Cadets from the Kentucky State Police Training Academy will join in the effort.

KSP is looking to expand the geographical area of the search and have reached out to the military for additional air support that will be provided once the weather breaks.

According to the Kentucky State Police (KSP), they are currently investigating the disappearance of seven-year-old Randall Leon Chesser. According to a press release issued by KSP, Chesser was last seen wearing a light blue hoodie, blue jeans and cowboy boots with spurs. He is a white male, four-foot tall, weighing approximately 40 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. He has a birthmark in the hairline above his forehead and is Autistic.

Sept. 23WCHS SBDM election
The WCHS SBDM will be conducting an election for one parent representative on Friday, Sept. 23 in the high school lobby.
The election will be held from 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. The parents that are running for the position are Diane Edwards and Melinda Wingfield. Any questions you may contact Joey Spalding at 336-3939.

Ninie (Glasscock) Hammon left Springfield in 1995 after serving five years as editor, general manager and eventually publisher of The Springfield Sun.

After 16 years away, Hammon returned to Springfield on Wednesday of last week to sign copies of her books at the Washington County Public Library.
She’s been quite busy in the last 16 years.
Currently, she spends most of her time writing.

Harold Lewis, Jr., 27, of Mackville died Tuesday in a fatal accident on KY 433, 2.6 miles north of Mackville, according to a press release from the Kentucky State Police.

According to the release, Lewis was driving a 1997 Dodge Neon and was traveling north when he apparently swerved to miss a cow in the northbound lane and struck a second cow that was on the road in the southbound lane.
The vehicle left the roadway, traveled through a fence and came to rest in a creek bed where the vehicle burned.
Lewis worked at Calumet Farm in Lexington.

The Washington County School Board voted to accept a $100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation during its regular monthly meeting Monday evening.

It is the second grant of the same amount to come from the foundation.
Washington County Public Schools received a similar grant in February to help students prepare for college.
The school district is just one of 12 in the state to receive the grant, which totals $8.8 million over three years.

Sentencing for Norris Wayne Bartley and Billy Joe Mattingly, who pled guilty to stealing marijuana while serving as sheriff’s deputies, has been delayed until Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at the Gene Snyder building in Louisville.

Bartley, 43, of Springfield requested his sentencing be rescheduled until around the middle of September.

Tax rates on personal property, motor vehicles, watercraft and aircraft will remain the same as last year for Springfield city residents.

The second reading of the ad valorem tax on real and personal property and the ordinance on re-establishing a tax rate on motor vehicles, watercraft and aircraft were passed unanimously by the Springfield City Council on Sept. 13 at its regular scheduled meeting.
Tax rates for real and personal property remain at $.130 per $100 valuation of property assessed for taxation.